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An animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language.

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The reason for the animations being the way imo they are lend themselves well to how topics are brought up.It reminds me a lot of the Youtube channel "blank on blank" albeit with more clarification and comment sections by the animator Michel Gondry.

A nice intro to Chomsky's life and the relevancy of his work as a linguist rather than the activist/political commentator reputations he's accumulated in a lot of media. I liked the part about his work on generative grammar.

There's only a little bit of mention of politics with references to WWII,former French president Sarkozy, a time he spoke in Turkey and what his children have done.

What bothers me a bit is how (when I watched it) I couldn't skip the trailers.

I'm glad this exists, I guess. The contrast between Chomsky's hyper-analytic sobriety and Gondry's playful whimsey creates its own wacky tension, and as a Canadian kid, the funky NFB-style animations had a charmingly nostalgic kick to them. But this really is a Chomsky primer, and not a very thorough one at that. The lack of discussion on any topic of current political relevance was surprising; knowing that his project would take some years to complete, was Gondry overly cautious about potentially dating his film?